Word: crystallizer
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...work on a new novel. Subject: the war between generations (he favors the elder). He lives in Manhattan's Alden Hotel, does his work out of town, at West Point. He has applied for U.S. citizenship; has a draft number. In his pocket he carries a crystal rosary, wrapped in a lace handkerchief. It was given to him by the proprietress of a Nancy brothel who hid him from the Germans for three days...
...grave. Before she died in 1926 she knew that grand-manner Newport could not retain its grandeur. Perhaps she could imagine it slowly falling apart. Each year something happened to it - some dealer bought one of the great houses that nobody ever really lived in, some heir sold the crystal chandeliers, the grand pianos, the organs, the stained glass windows, the gold-inlaid bathtubs, the tapestry, the silver and the collections of classics that nobody read - until Newport grew more & more like some ancient beauty whose memory is fading, whose sight is failing and whose hearing and teeth are gone...
Pious indeed has been the voice of Adolf Hitler calling Christian Europe to support his latest conquest, his "holy war" against Russian Communism (TIME, July 7). By this week, however, Christians had made it crystal clear that they wanted no part of his crusade...
...June 23) the U.S. nevertheless saw the start of such warfare last week on the chief Latin-American front: Brazil. A strategic loophole was plugged with a preclusive buying arrangement. Brazil stopped exporting-except to this Hemisphere and Britain-important war materials such as manganese, rubber, industrial diamonds, quartz crystal, mica...
When a patient recovers from shock, Dr. Aldrich treats him for the next hazard -death from streptococcic infection. Loose bits of skin are trimmed away, but he is not scrubbed. A surgeon sprays a mixed solution of three aniline dyes-crystal violet, brilliant green, and brownish neutral acriflavine directly on to his burned skin. As soon as the dye covers his exposed nerve ends, all pain stops...